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ContributorsKing, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (Speaker) / Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995 (Recordist) / LaRue-Sandler, Kristen (Transcriber)
Created1964-06-03
DescriptionMartin Luther King Jr.'s speech, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity," at Arizona State University's Goodwin Stadium. The recording includes a brief talk with Arizona NAACP supporters at the Tanner Chapel AME Church in Phoenix earlier the same day.
ContributorsKing, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (Speaker) / Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995 (Recordist)
Created1964-06-03
Description
Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, titled "Religious Witness for Human Dignity," at Arizona State University's Goodwin Stadium. The recording includes a brief talk with Arizona NAACP supporters at the Tanner Chapel AME Church in Phoenix earlier the same day.
ContributorsKing, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (Creator) / LaRue-Sandler, Kristen (Transcriber)
Created2013-08-29
Description
Transcription of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Religious Witness for Human Dignity," which he delivered at Arizona State University's Goodwin Stadium.
ContributorsColeman, Austin Hughes, 1937-2013 (Host) / KCAC (Radio station : Phoenix, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1963 (year uncertain)
Description
This Sunday morning broadcast, hosted by Austin Coleman, features a commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation. Coleman also reads a letter from Rev. and Mrs. Leonard Johnson of Coolidge, Arizona discussing citizenship and freedom; reports on a NAACP meeting covering the absence of “negro” employees in Arizona state government positions, discrimination in public accommodations, and calls for a march on the Arizona capitol if the accommodations bill is not passed; and introduces and comments on a clip of Martin Luther King's "Three Words" (All, Here, Now).
ContributorsColeman, Austin Hughes, 1937-2013 (Host) / Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995 (Speaker) / KCAC (Radio station : Phoenix, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1964-03-01
Description
This program, dedicated to Mr. Milton Thomas Ellis, features Lincoln Ragsdale discussing an event in Coolidge, Arizona in which two Blacks entered a restaurant to ask for food “that they might go outside and eat” and were arrested and fined $1,500. Ragsdale also calls for increased NAACP membership and reflects on a march in Pinal County in the previous year. The program also includes announcements of upcoming events and opportunities for "young negro women" to work with the "new IBM machines and new telephone switchboards" being installed at the Valley Life Insurance Company.
ContributorsDickey, Bill (William Dan), 1928-2012 (Host) / Middleton, James Peter, 1928-1988 (Speaker) / KCAC (Radio station : Phoenix, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1964-01-12
Description
This recording includes a presentation by James P. Middleton, Pastor of the Beacon Light Seventh Day Adventist Church; a call to attend a rally sponsored by the NAACP scheduled for the afternoon and intended to raise money for Medgar Evers' widow; and a presentation on George Washington Carver by Mrs. Emma Scott.
ContributorsColeman, Austin Hughes, 1937-2013 (Host) / Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995 (Speaker) / KCAC (Radio station : Phoenix, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1963-09-09
DescriptionIn this broadcast, Austin Coleman discusses the sit-in held by the Youth Council of the Maricopa County Chapter of the NAACP at the El Ray Café and Lincoln Ragsdale speaks on the "stepped-up integration movement."
ContributorsColeman, Austin Hughes, 1937-2013 (Host) / Ragsdale, Lincoln Johnson, 1926-1995 (Speaker) / Brooks, G. Benjamin (George Benjamin), 1926-2007 (Speaker) / KCAC (Radio station : Phoenix, Ariz.) (Contributor)
Created1963-12-29
Description
This broadcast begins with Rev. G. Benjamin Brooks giving the NAACP's report for 1963, including a chronological account of events in Maricopa County, and thanking his listeners for the 27,000 votes they cast in his favor during his run for Phoenix City Council. Lincoln Ragsdale speaks on the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Bull Connor, Medgar Evers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and Black workers employed by Phoenix businesses.